Unrelated query, but — has anyone considered another of the implications of Willis’ buffer? That being that he can put extra strips in-between stuff? (Like if he has a meeting between two characters occurring in four weeks which he draws two strips for, then comes up with an idea for a third strip, draws that, and puts that in between the original two strips.)

It’s certainly not likely (though that’s more because of the precarious balance of Friday cliffhangers and the generally good pacing making extra strips unnecessary), but it doesn’t entirely eliminate the possibility of comics inspired by comments (within a certain time-frame, at least).
The possibility of comics inspired by comments is eliminated by a whole other set of reasons, but okay, it doesn’t entirely eliminate the possibility of…future-retconning-not-yet-happening-past-events–okay I lost my point.

Our liberalest liberals, to the best of my knowledge, live mostly in BC, are stoned 24/7, and log 12-hour days in World of Warcraft. They’re so congenial, they’d agree to be set on fire if you phrased it nicely.

Sadly, this archetype of Canadian rarely makes it to the voting stations. Be very interesting place to live if they suddenly all did. ^_^

To be honest, I think that if voting was (somehow safely) implemented online, every election in the world would hit 100% turnouts.
Because, you know, who on earth would ever care who’s making decisions, so long as they don’t have to commute a block or two to a school or other polling place… >_<